Carmen Cabrera is a Lecturer in Geographic Data Science (Assistant Professor) at the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool, and an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL). Her work sits at the intersection of geographic data science and computational social science.
Her research uses high-resolution digital trace data and quantitative modelling to examine how disruptions, including extreme weather, pandemics and other shocks, reshape human mobility across urban space and population groups. Methodologically, she develops statistical and computational frameworks to measure, explain and adjust biases in digital mobility data, strengthening its reliability for scientific inference and policy use, particularly in data-scarce contexts.
Carmen collaborates with international and policy-facing partners, including various United Nations sections, national ministries, and local governments, to advance the integration of digital trace mobility data into official statistics. She is a member of the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics and sits on the Council of the Complex Systems Society. She has secured research funding across multiple projects on bias in digital mobility data, transport planning and migration analytics. She is Associate Editor of Applied Network Science and serves on the Editorial Board of Annals of the American Association of Geographers and Computational Urban Science, and has published widely in leading journals in the field.
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Email: c.cabrera [ at ] liverpool.ac.uk
About me
Interests
- Human mobility
- Geographic Data Science
- Network theory
- Urban structure
- Socieconomic inequalities
Education
- PhD in Applied Mathematics ∙ University College London ∙ 2021
- MSc in Complex Systems ∙ King’s College London ∙ 2017
- B.S. in Physics ∙ University of Valencia (year abroad at Imperial College London) ∙ 2016